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Show HN: A simpler coding agent harness

4 points·by pyrolistical·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

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pyrolistical
·gestern·discuss
It’s open source. You take ownership of it for your deployment and stop relying on continued free work.

You can use llm to pull in updates as they are released. It’s not gpl, so you don’t need to publish your port
pyrolistical
·vorgestern·discuss
Yeah but they turned it into something unreadable. Call it a skill issue if you wish.

I just haven’t found another language that just makes sense. Zig doesn’t hide anything from you
pyrolistical
·vorgestern·discuss
I predict we may be heading back to self implementations based off of papers since it is now cheaper to do so with AI coding agents.

Yeah they kinda suck and make mistakes right now, but tech only gets better.

It’s no different than 3D printing. Instead of cutting and joining a bunch of stock parts, you just print the desired part.

In the same way printing with plastic kinda sucks, the tech will improve. Now you can print in metal or in resin without supports.

The future will be take all the ideas from various off the shelf products but tightly integrate them together for my specific use case
pyrolistical
·vor 3 Tagen·discuss
That would require someone who knows what they are doing, hence this service
pyrolistical
·vor 3 Tagen·discuss
Within an order of magnitude. I would call this awash
pyrolistical
·vor 15 Tagen·discuss
And then you can get AI do a nicer port of SDL.zig and you get way better decls.

Proper enums, proper tagged unions, and often reading the docs can allow the AI to distinguish T * to one of

1. [*]T

2. [:0]T

3. ?T

4. *T

And these are just the most common ones. If you know it’s a read only pointer/array then you can add the const modifier
pyrolistical
·vor 22 Tagen·discuss
What do you mean? By the time you have kernel access like that you’ve already won.
pyrolistical
·vor 24 Tagen·discuss
I’ve been yak shaving the interfaces not the implementation.

I used ai to convert c headers into in nice zig code. Then I link to the library.

It’s cheap to use zig translate-c to convert c headers but the output isn’t nice.

You can give ai c++ source which usually has more documentation than the compromised flat c header. It allows you to do a better zig port. Zig greatly cuts down the noise in c headers as everything needs to have long prefix for namespacing. But in zig we can just nest things properly.

We can introduce intermediate layers to use proper tagged unions and distinguish ?T, *T, [*]T
pyrolistical
·letzten Monat·discuss
Expose the sync queue to end user and train them to understand if they attempt to close the tab with a pending queue they will get the ugly prompt warning them
pyrolistical
·letzten Monat·discuss
The prefix cache is working properly 100k doesn’t prefill more than once
pyrolistical
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
We should port the zig std lib as a c lib
pyrolistical
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
You can also write Gherkin in markdown and have test fixtures for each given, when, then
pyrolistical
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
So robo taxis are going to stalk us?
pyrolistical
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Crappy managers don’t know (or actively avoid) how to measure business value from individuals. So they need you to be in the office so they can physically see if you are putting in the effort.

Tokens is just yet another proxy for business value.

The problem they face is if everybody is judge by business value in dollars, crappy managers are the first to go
pyrolistical
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
As a human I make typos all the time
pyrolistical
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
I love coding with bun. It comes with everything.

For my projects I don’t even need any additional dependencies. I use vanilla dom and sqlite
pyrolistical
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
You don’t know what you don’t know
pyrolistical
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
I don’t get it

Why write:

EqPoint.eql(a, c)

When you can write:

Point.eql(a, c)
pyrolistical
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
A sovereign wealth fund makes sense if fund with profits from exploiting our natural resources.

That is how Norway did it
pyrolistical
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Protip. Claude can generate state machine diagrams via mermaidjs blocks in markdown.

These render in GitHub flavoured markdown